It wasn’t all bad.
It just wasn’t as good as Gator fans were hoping for.
The loss to Vanderbilt brought the gag reflex into play. The win over South Florida had fans screaming for a new quarterback.
Most importantly, losses to Florida’s three big rivals for the first time ever did not sit well with a group of fans who live for those rivalry games.
Florida awaits its bowl game with a 6-6 record, under .500 again in the SEC and a handful of players already either leaving or being told to leave.
[autotag]Billy Napier[/autotag]’s first Florida team did a lot of good things such as finish eighth in the country in turnover margin – something that was a major issue heading into this season – 15th in the running game out of 131 teams and fourth-ranked net punting numbers in the nation.
But we expected more.
And we certainly expect more going forward.
Nobody is expecting the College Football Playoffs in Napier’s second year. The schedule is just as difficult in 2023 as it was in 2022. But there are a lot of things that have to get better.
Here are 12 of them in today’s Dooley’s Dozen.